John Banville comes to mind (though The Book of Evidence is a beautiful novel). Any others?
No.6585
Anonymous
2025-07-27 20:01:56
Great prose writers who mostly wrote only-okay novels?
No.6587
Anonymous
2025-07-27 22:54:18
Who is this guy
No.6592
Anonymous
2025-07-28 07:01:07
T.S. Eliot
also, A.S. Byatt, Julian Barnes, Fowles, Coetzee, above all: Don DeLilo.
Aldous Huxley
>>6627
I would have thought that his novels were good and his prose bad!
I would have thought that his novels were good and his prose bad!
No.6632
Anonymous
2025-07-29 14:19:24
>>6631
He wrote a lot of tedious philosophical novels (Island, Brave new world, I have no memory of his other novels despite reading most of them), while his essays are brilliant (Vulgarity in Literature, The Doors of Perception).
Sartre is another one like him, while Camus is the other way around.
He wrote a lot of tedious philosophical novels (Island, Brave new world, I have no memory of his other novels despite reading most of them), while his essays are brilliant (Vulgarity in Literature, The Doors of Perception).
Sartre is another one like him, while Camus is the other way around.
No.6634
Anonymous
2025-07-29 14:50:38
I like Orwell's novels but they probably do not represent his finest work.
>>6593
> Coetzee
I thought Disgrace was supposed to be really good?
>>6593
> Coetzee
I thought Disgrace was supposed to be really good?
No.6845
Anonymous
2025-08-09 08:39:08
Orwells novels are just fine. His prose is much better than other names stated in this thread. its true that his best work lies in his essays. unfortunately, but what can a man do?